Maryland at Iowa women’s basketball glance: Time, TV, game notes (Jan. 5, 2025)

What: No. 8 Maryland (13-0 overall, 3-0 Big Ten) at No. 23 Iowa (12-2, 2-1), women’s basketball

When/where: 5 p.m. Sunday, Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Iowa City

TV: BTN

Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates

Iowa’s next game: At Illinois, 6 p.m. Thursday.

What to know: Maryland leads the series 11-7, but Iowa has won three of the last four.

The Terrapins are 13-0 for the third time, the first since 2011-12.

Former Iowa coach Lisa Bluder will be honored at halftime.

Cedar Rapids native Brenda Frese is in her 23rd year at Maryland, where she has posted a 595-161 record. She has guided the Terrapins to six Big Ten championships and five Big Ten tournament titles.

Nine players on the Maryland roster are transfers, including leading scorer Kaylene Smikle (formerly of Rutgers, 17.5 ppg).

Iowa has won 20 consecutive games at Carver-Hawkeye Arena (the fifth longest home win streak in the nation), and is 6-0 at home this season.

Addison O’Grady is third nationally in field goal percentage (.694). She made all eight of her attempts in Sunday’s 80-68 win at Penn State. O’Grady is averaging 13.5 points per game after posting 3.4 ppg in her first three seasons.

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